Letter from "Pop" (Edwin A. Swanson) to his daughter Jean Marion, aged 9, written on Hotel Jamestown stationery in Jamestown, New York, on Sunday 3 April 1932, with deliberate misspellings for her to correct: a get-well note about her chicken pox, with a riddle about Job and his boils.

[Letterhead:] "The House Beautiful." Hotel Jamestown. The distinctive hotel of the Chautauqua region. A modern metropolitan hotel in a charming country. 300 rooms with baths. Polite service. Reasonable rates. Jamestown, New York, on Chautauqua Lake. "You are a stranger here only once." P. J. Moynihan, Manager.

[The letter is written with deliberate misspellings, as a joke for his young daughter; transcribed as written.]

Yamestowne, Noo York Sundae, the Third Aprile, month of Showers, 1932

Dere Jean Marion: Was thinken about yew all day yesterdey an hōp yew our alrite now. Remember, we dont want any more Chicken Boxes in are hous cause we Kant fead dem. Was thinken about those nastie lumps on yur leags and I was tinken about somebudy yu red in the Bibel, [struck through: to] hoo had boyles. Gess, who? The name is sumthing [struck through: that] like ore it spells like sumthing mama gives erybody to doo in are hous. I am sory that I did[n't?] take me dikshunnary wit me so I kould spell rite so you bedder check over this ledder an sea howe meny misstakes I made. I dount tink their is meny and hoap I wil got a mark of won hundred.

Wit luve and tisses Pop

[The "Chicken Boxes" are chicken pox. The man in the Bible with boils is Job, whose name is spelled like the jobs Mama gives everybody to do.]